2013 - $20 FINE SILVER COIN GROUP OF SEVEN – The Painting Sumacs -J.E.H. MacDonald

In 1887 at the age of 14, James Edward Hervey MacDonald emigrated from Durham, England to Hamilton, Ontario. The son of a Canadian cabinetmaker and an English mother, MacDonald studied art in Hamilton and Toronto. He began a career in commercial design in 1895, only to abandon it in the second decade of the 1900s when he was encouraged by mentor Lawren Harris to paint full-time. One of MacDonald's great friends was the painter Tom Thomson—and the two artists had an enormous influence on each other.

Specifications
Mintage 7000
Composition 99.99 % fine silver
Finish proof
Weight (g) 31.39
Diameter (mm)38
Edge serrated
Certificate serialized
Face value20 dollars
Artist reproduced painting Sumacs by J.E.H. MacDonald (reverse), Susanna Blunt (obverse)